Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people pay attention to sports? A: Because there is always an element of the unknown attached to competition. Participants as well as spectators can never predict positively, unalterably, absolutely and beyond a shadow of a doubt what the result of an individual clash, a two-team series, or even the eventual outcome of a whole season will...
...question last week as white Rhodesians paused to celebrate the 88th anniversary of the founding of Fort Salisbury on the site of the modern capital. When Ian Smith arrived for the celebration at Cecil Square, one man shouted "Good old Smithy! Some of us are still behind you!" No doubt that was true, though it was hard to tell from the tepid applause...
...salting away in safe-deposit boxes, move the money into new investments that help the economy, and produce a greater volume of transactions to be taxed. Russell Long, who will have as much to do with shaping this year's tax legislation as anyone, asserts: "I have no doubt that we are going to cut the capital gains tax. And I am convinced that [the Government is] going to make money...
...opposition reflects a doubt that growth, once the watchword of the can-do American philosophy, is good. The skeptics ignore the reality that a slow-growth or no-growth philosophy could kill the promise of upward mobility. That may be acceptable to the middle-and upper-income people who dominate the antinuclear movement. But it would condemn the poor and the jobless to a perpetuation of their have-not status and could well endanger the future of American democracy, in which the social and economic inequalities of the free system are made tolerable by the hope of improvement...
...There are still Marxists involved, but there is no doubt they can no longer control the movement," said a foreign diplomat who asked not to be identified...